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Title: Forster resonance energy transfer competitive displacement assay for human soluble epoxide hydrolase.

Authors: Lee, Kin Sing Stephen; Morisseau, Christophe; Yang, Jun; Wang, Peng; Hwang, Sung Hee; Hammock, Bruce D

Published In Anal Biochem, (2013 Mar 15)

Abstract: The soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), responsible for the hydrolysis of various fatty acid epoxides to their corresponding 1,2-diols, is becoming an attractive pharmaceutical target. These fatty acid epoxides, particularly epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), play an important role in human homeostatic and inflammation processes. Therefore, inhibition of human sEH, which stabilizes EETs in vivo, brings several beneficial effects to human health. Although there are several catalytic assays available to determine the potency of sEH inhibitors, measuring the in vitro inhibition constant (K(i)) for these inhibitors using catalytic assay is laborious. In addition, k(off), which has been recently suggested to correlate better with the in vivo potency of inhibitors, has never been measured for sEH inhibitors. To better measure the potency of sEH inhibitors, a reporting ligand, 1-(adamantan-1-yl)-3-(1-(2-(7-hydroxy-2-oxo-2H-chromen-4-yl)acetyl) piperidin-4-yl)urea (ACPU), was designed and synthesized. With ACPU, we have developed a Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based competitive displacement assay using intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence from sEH. In addition, the resulting assay allows us to measure the K(i) values of very potent compounds to the picomolar level and to obtain relative k(off) values of the inhibitors. This assay provides additional data to evaluate the potency of sEH inhibitors.

PubMed ID: 23219719 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Binding, Competitive; Biological Assay/methods*; Crystallography, X-Ray; Enzyme Activation/drug effects; Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology; Epoxide Hydrolases/antagonists & inhibitors; Epoxide Hydrolases/chemistry; Epoxide Hydrolases/metabolism*; Fluorescence; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer/methods*; Humans; Inhibitory Concentration 50; Solubility; Tryptophan/chemistry

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